Positive Move Between Chinese and Afghanistan Armies
The Chinese and Afghan governments have reached a military agreement where the Chinese agree to start training the Afghans in 2010. It’s a step in the right direction towards a Sysadmin force that is effective and can allow the best component of each country’s military forces to be combined effectively.
How to Deal With Iran and Get Help With Afghanistan
The United States has been urging large countries like China and Russia to put sanctions on Iran in the hopes of dissuading President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran from attaining the nuclear weapon and to instead look for a more peaceful approach. The unfortunate thing for the United States is that, by imposing these economic sanctions [...]
The U.S. Should Strengthen Relationship With the Chinese Military
President Obama plans on making a trip next month to Beijing to discuss topics ranging from climate change, the global financial crisis, and nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea. While these are all very important topics for President Obama, the last one that is even more important is increasing the relations between the U.S. [...]
Start Talking Again with North Korea
By choosing to send President Clinton to discuss the release of the two journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, President Obama was taking a big step in diplomacy. By sending a previous President to discuss the release of these two American citizens instead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or some other diplomat, President Obama [...]
Relations With Russia Can Be Helpful
With President Obama in Russia dealing with issues of all sorts of severity, a simple question has been posed: why are relations with Russia so important? I look at the United States and Russia throughout the previous seventy years and it’s not all that difficult to understand that there have always been some problems between [...]
Why Do We Need Fifty Four Hundred Nukes Again?
Now that President Obama is in London preparing his first ever appearance at a Group of 20 meeting, one of the issues that I am hoping will come on the sidelines when finance is not being discussed is nuclear non-proliferation. With Russia being one of the members there, it will give President Obama a chance [...]
Obama’s Foreign Policy: More of the Same
All should be pleased and relieved with the election of Barack Obama as President. In addition to the clear indication that the people of the United States demand a change from eight years of Bush, the fact that an African – American has achieved the Presidency is a major step for civil rights. [...]
Putin and Medvedev: The Hammer and Sickle?
When you mix an ex KGB agent with a President, chances are, things are going to get messy. Nowhere is this seen more than with the Russian administration, involving Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Combine these two with a corrupt mayor from Russia’s largest city and we suddenly see the emergence of an era that [...]
